Antarctica
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HL Adventure’s team with Jon Olafur Magnusson, the founder of HL Adventure and Patrick Degermann, explorer and motivation speaker, is heading to this exciting continent the 5th of February 2011 for one month expedition.
What is the aim of this expedition?
Give you in the future the opportunity to visit this continent…experience the conditions there.
Antarctica is the driest, and windiest continent, and has the highest average elevation of all the continents. Antarctica is considered a desert, with annual precipitation of only 200 mm (8 inches) along the coast and far less inland. There are no permanent human residents, but anywhere from 1,000 to 5,000 people reside throughout the year at the research stations scattered across the continent. Only cold-adapted plants and animals survive there, including penguins, seals, tardigrades, mites, many types of algae and other microorganisms, and tundra vegetation.
Antarctica is the coldest place on Earth. The coldest natural temperature ever recorded on Earth was −89.2 °C (−128.6 °F) at the Russian Vostok Station in Antarctica on 21 July 1983. Temperatures reach a minimum of between −80 °C (−112 °F) and −90 °C (−130 °F) in the interior in winter and reach a maximum of between 5 °C (41 °F) and 15 °C (59 °F) near the coast in summer.
Turn wild ideas into a real adventure
Let us help you fulfill your dream. Experience the "coolest place on earh" in the safe hands of HL Adventure